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    "id": 758412,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "id": 1889,
        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose this Procedural Motion. Standing Order No. 120 is very clear. I am in concurrence with whatever the Leader of the Majority Party has said, but we are looking at where the country is. As I speak, I look at the eye of the Leader of the Majority Party and he should be looking at me. I want to look at the honesty. I want to quote William Shakespeare. He said: “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” Temperatures of this country are rising every day. Yesterday, the discussion between the Jubilee side and the NASA side was stopped because of this Bill. This is our country. We do not have any other country. There is no way the Leader of the Majority Party can come here to give Notice of Motion to form an a d hoc Committee which is not yet in place and you go ahead to reduce the publication period from 14 days to one day. This is what we are seeing here. From the NASA side, I know we have not yet rearranged in terms of our leadership. In the 11th Parliament, I was the Deputy Whip of the Minority Party and I am speaking because I am the first one on the list. So, I am speaking on the behalf of the great people of Kiminini. As I stand here today, I oppose this because, normally, when we talk about the 14 days of publication, this is to give room to the members of the public as outlined in Article 118 of the Constitution, which requires public participation. We cannot reduce such an important matter to one day. It does not make sense. Because the matter is so controversial and the public interest is very high, it is indeed key that we should give the entire period of the 14 days so that we give the public ample time in terms of their preparation, particularly on the Election Laws Act and the Election Offences Act."
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